Thomas Fearn

Thomas Fearn (November 15, 1789 - January 16, 1863) was a prominent Confederate politician. He was born in Pittsylvania County, Virginia and later moved to Alabama. He served in the United States Army in the War of 1812 and as a member of the Alabama state legislature. Before the Civil War, he was a practicing physician in Huntsville, and served as a physician under Andrew Jackson.^[1] He was the father-in-law of William Taylor Sullivan Barry. He represented Alabama in the first session of the Provisional Confederate Congress in 1861.

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Signatories of the Confederate States Constitution

Congress President	Howell Cobb

South Carolina	Robert Rhett Christopher Memminger Porcher Miles James Chesnut, Jr. Robert Barnwell William Boyce Laurence Keitt Thomas Withers

Georgia	Robert Toombs Francis Bartow Martin Crawford Alexander Stephens Benjamin Hill Thomas Cobb Eugenius Nisbet Augustus Wright Augustus Kenan

Florida	Jackson Morton Patton Anderson James Owens

Alabama	Richard Walker Robert Smith Colin McRae William Chilton Stephen Hale David Lewis Thomas Fearn, Jr. Gill Shorter Jabez Curry

Mississippi	Alexander Clayton James Harrison William Barry William Wilson Walker Brooke Wiley Harris Josiah Campbell

Louisiana	John Perkins, Jr. Alexandre de Clouet Charles Conrad Duncan Kenner Henry Marshall Edward Sparrow

Texas	John Hemphill Thomas Waul John Reagan Williamson Oldham Louis Wigfall John Gregg William Ochiltree

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